AWAKEN TO YOURSELF

Gaining Dexterity

We can see from current events the great danger in getting locked into a certain view or way of being. It limits our possibility and the possibilities of others. On a spiritual path, it is a critical attribute to be able to be versatile and adapt to what is happening because it doesn’t help to bring our ideas about things to the present moment. Humans are designed to handle the unknown because the universe has little interest in our patterns and repetitions. To be in the flow is to be with the way things evolve. (At the end of this post there are instructions and a link to download this recording to your computer.)

Jeane:So the first dream I had last night, it takes place in like a large building where I’m obviously meeting with some people, and then we also sleep in this building, both men and women. I’m not there with someone, though. It’s not like I’m in a relationship, but I have maybe a woman that I’m sharing a room with.

Whatever we’re meeting about, it seems to have to do with clothes, and when I’m in one room there’s like a rack of clothes in the middle of the room, and there’s also a man that wants us to buy these expensive skirts from him. But, when I look at these plaid skirts, I realize that I can see in my mind’s eye some plaid skirts that my mother had, that were also good quality, and I feel like he’s way overcharging. So I don’t want to buy the skirts from him because I just feel like they’re not good value. So I kind of skirt around being put in a position where I have to buy anything.

I think at one point I’m going back up to the room I share with this woman, and I can’t quite find the way to the room, and the man comes along and he’s trying to show me a backdoor into the room but it requires you kind of climbing up a steep, slick, slope to get to a door, and then see if you can open it. And I feel like I can do it, but it doesn’t also feel like quite the right way to get into the room. So it feels like I go partway up the slope. I may even go all the way up, but then I decide to go somewhere else in the building.

And I go without him, and I go into a room and I find a rather masculine woman, she’s laid back on the foot of the bed, you know like her feet are on the floor but she’s laying back on the bed. She’s dressed in a dress, and maybe she’s a little upset about something. I don’t know, but I’m coming over and I’m talking to her suddenly about some experiences that are kind of like out of the ordinary experiences I had when I was working with the Course in Miracles, because I’ve identified that she goes to something like an AA group, so I feel like having gone to that group she can understand extraordinary experiences where there were some lights that I saw in a room, or things I was told. I feel like she can understand.

She even understands to the point where, as she’s leaving the room, she wonders if I would want to join her group, but I realize AA isn’t the right place for me to go, but it’s like I was glad that she understood.

Then I go back up to the room I’m sharing, and the room actually is several rooms joined together, and even in the room they have things that we’ve hung up that could be used for various purposes. It feels like that man from below also comes and is in the room for a period of time, because I guess you can move from room to room with where you stay if you want to.

And there are some activities that people are going for; I’m kind of ambivalent about whether I want to go down and join them for the meal, or I just want to rest. And then it feels like when I’m looking for some clothes I decide I’m going to go down for the meal. The two of them are going to stay in the room, I guess, but I can’t find some clothes that I brought up that I want to wear, so I’m not sure that I have something appropriate to wear.

And I’m trying to figure out if that matters, because somebody else has wandered through the room by now, too, and I’m looking in various closets to see if I can find what it was that I had brought up to wear, like I might see a suitcase, but then the suitcase has been emptied. Or I go into a closet and the walls of the closet that had cupboards in them, the moment before where I had put something, they’ve now the whole shape of the closet has changed and the cupboards that were there a moment ago aren’t there anymore. And that’s really kind of all I remember of that dream.

John: The dream has you seeing yourself in a whole different way, and in how it is that you’re accustomed to being, which means that you’ve developed more dexterity, and openness, and have actually changed – and aren’t quite up to speed with that in terms of your old self.

In other words, the clothes, for example, are overpriced, what you see, and you know that you can take and get them for a better price. In other words, you have that sense, that other sense, that’s now possible, when before you probably would have settled for those clothes.

You know you can go up and into a room through a back way, through another way, instead of the usual way of going up into the room, again more dexterity in a sense that your perception has changed.

You are able to take something that would normally be considered a dense person and recognize something more about them, an insight that can come out of them, and that’s something that normally you wouldn’t do. You’d be more inclined to dismiss them.

You can go back to kind of the place where you were before, like where there was a room with a couple other people and you can take and be relatable in that scenario, when before there would be some sort of oddity or awkwardness that would still have to be sorted out.

When you go into a clothing store what you’re looking for is different. What you’re trying to experience is different, so the clothes that are ordinarily there are not quite what you know, which you could even kind of make for yourself going back to the first dream, the first part of the dream.

All of it is suggesting that you’re drawing observations in terms of yourself that is coming from being in a slightly different mode than you usually are in. So what is that slightly different mode? Well, you’re more at ease with things. The sensation of the environment is not as intense. But somehow we have learned to shift into accepting the recognition of something more that is intended and meant to be, and aren’t as thrown around as we would be inclined to be, otherwise.

That wasn’t the case a few days ago, or a week ago, but it seems to be an adjustment, or a switch, that has somehow come to pass, or come to light, such that one is in a better way in terms of being able to relate, and to be. And it’s kind of taken place without a big discussion that you can make about how that could be, because all that you’re doing in your dream is just reporting that there are differences, and you’re reporting these differences in a matter of fact way. These differences are a difference from how it would have ordinarily been perceived not that long ago. You have more dexterity.

Jeane:Then I had an image where I was going to make you eggs for breakfast, and you like your eggs over easy, but the eggs that I bought recently at the market had kind of a hard shell, so when you try to break the shell, you know, you can break the egg.

So I’m trying to figure out a way around this, and I’m wondering if I should break the eggs into a bowl first to see if I can get them whole, because if they break the yolk I can always scramble them. But then I’d have more than one egg in the bowl, you know, with the initial way I was thinking about it, and then how do you just scoot two of those out into the pan? so I seem to be deliberating about that.

John: That’s an image of a kind of focus in which you’re able to have an attention that discerns and distinguishes, that isn’t necessarily an option for most people. In other words, this is an image that is showing you that, on an energetic level, that you can put your attention – instead of something just being in general – that you can put your attention at being able to differentiate and align, from the collective whole, things in a way of being, or pattern, that takes it out of just the collage of what’s going on.

In other words, most people are just affected by things, as they happen, and they just do the best they can. But you develop a focus and attention where you can discern, differentiate, and with your focus pull out something that others aren’t able to pull out.

And so this is a dream that’s kind of explaining what’s going on in the first dream, in that because you have that characteristic or quality that’s developed, you have more discernment, and more dexterity, as a consequence. It’s an explanation dream.

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